Drums And Rums Podcast – Episode 8 Juan "Carlito" Mendoza

Send us Fan MailWhere the backbeats meet the spirits.On this podcast episode number 8, it's a special one. So Rene Rivera is back to help me co-host for this guest. I also want to thank another Drums and Rums alumni, Dave Bloom for connecting us with our guest. Someone with 61,000 Instagram followers, 22,000 followers on Facebook and 46,000 YouTube subscribers with that many people interested in your social media, you gotta know that our guest has awesome and genuine content. I'd like to introduce Juan "Carlito" Mendoza. If you don't know Juan, he's the author of the book "Rudiment Creativity Volume 1, Rolls and Paradiddles, online drum teacher, a Drumeo alumni and the 2012 Guitar Center's Drum OFf Grand Champion. Also his sponsors include just to name a few   Pearl Drums, Remo, Vic Firth, Meinl.. On the show we talk about some Jersey references,  some of the challenges with teaching middle during COVID-19, his Drum Off journey, connecting with Jared and Dave from Drumeo, opportunities with performing on Broadway and affordable webinars he offers online.Also Juan lays down a drum groove from Madagascar .Make you check out his site carlitomendoza.com and tons content and video on YouTube, Instagram and Here's Juan jamming on a track written by Eli Menezes called "Talk to Me"  Check the YouTube video of him playing this track.